I’ll bet you it works, too. I’ll bet if you take a survey, 47% (ok, maybe not that many just yet but say in six months) will tell you that Obamacare was repealed, and now we have the Affordable Care Act that the President supports but that the Republicans want to repeal too and leave people without health insurance of any kind.

I dunno. I think the word “affordable” may give Nancy and the President quite a little problem here in the repackaging effort. That’s just another big lie on top of all the other lies related to Obamacare that people have picked up on. I bet we can do some good ads about how unaffordable the Affordable Care Act has proven to be.

President Obama himself, as well as his cohorts, embraced the term “Obamacare” when it served their purpose or prevented Republicans from theirs…that is until the website debacle occurred. Now the Dems distance themselves from it and the disaster associated with it…

President Obama is embracing the term “ObamaCare” on the campaign stump, attempting to turn the tables on critics who use it in a derogatory way.

“They call it ObamaCare?” the president told supporters at a St. Louis fundraiser Tuesday evening. “I do care! You should care, too.”

…

The second most senior Democrat in the House, Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), has been urging Democrats to embrace the term for months. He had even taken to handing out buttons with the words “I [heart] ObamaCare” as part of his campaign to rehabilitate the moniker.

“The fact that a healthcare bill is named after a first-term president who does what two other presidents before him couldn’t accomplish is really a compliment,” Conyers told The Hill in June. “A few years from now, ObamaCare will be looked upon as a complimentary description, rather than what [critics] are trying to portray it as now.”

Conyers’s office didn’t return a call for comment, but he has urged Democrats to stop running from the issue or risk having Republicans frame it to their advantage.

well, nk’s comment is way more fun than my dry reminder that politicians are pathetic little worms who will use anything and everything to their advantage, and then throw it away when it doesn’t…be it people or policy.

On a side note, who knew that WalMart’s health plan is cheaper for employees and offers more plans than Obamacare?

New Obamacare health insurance enrollees may feel a pang of envy when they eye the coverage plans offered by Walmart to its employees.

For many years, the giant discount retailer has been the target of unions and liberal activists who have harshly criticized the company’s health care plans, calling them “notorious for failing to provide health benefits” and “substandard.”

But a Washington Examiner comparison of the two health insurance programs found that Walmart’s plan is more affordable and provides significantly better access to high-quality medical care than Obamacare.

12. It doesn’t protect many patients either, so that’s a double Vizzini, it was crafted by Robert Creamer, so it isn’t true in any regards.

Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 1/10/2014 @ 8:10 pm

Stalinists love to play these games with names. Naming this the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is like the NORKs naming their country the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea.

It is true that the PPACA was created by an act of a body of people in Washington DC, just like the DPRK was created by an act of a body of people in the northern part of the Korean peninsula.

But once you get past the fact that two groups of people with similar ideological outlooks in specific geographic locations created something, nothing about the names other than the how or where they came into being have any claim to truth in them.

You mean, “shouldn’t there be some provision to provide care under the ACA.”

No. We have provisions that require the IRS to hire new agents, we have provisions to create new federal databases, we have provisions to drive restaurants and vending machine companies out of business because they won’t be able to keep up with all the nutritional labeling requirements, we have provisions to limit workers to less than 30 hours a week, we have provisions to prevent small businesses from ever hiring that 50th worker, etc.

But there’s nothing about providing care in that 2,700 page economy-strangling wet dream of a progressive wish list.

The six-figure grant was awarded to TheyFit of Covington, Ga., which offers a wide variety of condoms that vary in length — from a bit more than 3 inches to nearly 9 ¹/₂ — and in width.
They’re available in European Union countries, but not in the United States, where they would have to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

“For most of their existence, condoms were custom fitted,” TheyFit explains on its Web site.
“For hundreds of years, until the early part of the 20th century, they were made of linen or animal gut fitted to over individual penis sizes.”
But the introduction of latex, mass production of condoms and other factors created what the firm calls “the ‘one size fits all’ condom.”
For the man who doesn’t know his own penis size, TheyFit offers a free downloadable “FitKit.”
The NIH wants to test that, as well.

But there really nothing in the 2,700 page Obamacare (aka PPACA) legislation that actually has anything to do with providing anyone health care. People will get charged for it. The feds just never planned to deliver it.

The whole plan was to increase the size of the bureaucracy, tax the hell out of people, and turn physicians into federal agents.

It was advertised as something that would increase people’s access to health care. In fact it makes things worse.

And that was by design. The Stalinists had to get this past the CBO, the electorate, and through Congress, so they had to lie. The idea was that when everyone discovered Obamacare doesn’t do anything they were told it was going to do, then the voters who are getting screwed out of the health care they were happy with would force the GOP to spend, spend, spend on fixing what the Democrats broke. And the Democrats plan on continuing breaking things until they get to single payer. Which still won’t deliver decent health care. But, man, do all the complaints about health care guarantee job security to the Stalinists who will keep promising to fix the system they keep breaking!

Norm Schieber, the senior editor at The New Republic celebrates the plan to defraud the people of the US into something that it doesn’t want because it won’t deliver here:

…And yet I’m still much more sympathetic to Obamacare than Moore. He thinks it’s awful. I consider it a deceptively sneaky way to get the health care system both of us really want.

…Hence the kind of horror-stories Moore cites in his op-ed: A 60-year old couple with an annual income of $65,000 who could end up spending $25,000 on health care in a single year. And that’s with Obamacare. (This is something of an outlier, but not that much of one.) But the flip side is that the law also created potentially millions of hard-working Americans who will have some health insurance; just maddeningly insufficient health insurance. What are the chances politicians stand up and take notice when these Americans complain?

…Once the previously uninsured start getting insurance, the natural upshot of cataloguing the law’s shortcomings isn’t to give them less insurance, as my colleague Alec MacGillis pointed out last fall. It’s to give them more.

…The basic point is that, by pooling millions of people together in one institutional home—the exchanges where customers buy insurance under Obamacare—the Affordable Care Act is creating an organized constituency for additional reform. And since threadbare coverage is the only affordable option under Obamacare for many of these people, the law is giving them a whole set of grievances to get exercised about.

The point is to promise people health care, but never provide it. That’s a money maker for progressives who want to turn the spending spigot on so they can spread the wealth around.

There is no care under the ACA. Affordable or unaffordable. It doesn’t exist.

That is something the Dems plan to make more barnyard noises and empty promises about later, to extort more spending money, but the original ACA was only about getting the enforcement mechanisms for the wealth redistribution in place.

Ford’s Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley, said something both sinister and obvious during a panel discussion about data privacy today at CES, the big electronics trade show in Las Vegas.

Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when many of its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they’re doing it.

Farley has since retracted his statements.

Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns: “We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you’re doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing. By the way, we don’t supply that data to anyone,” he told attendees.

First of all, Nancy, you may recall that all legislation is titled with a meaning opposite to the actual effect of the law. The (“Obamacare” or “ACA”) policies are neither affordable nor provide access to care (many hospitals and physicians opted out of those networks).

Much like the “Patriot Act” laid the foundations for a police state, with travel restrictions, domestic spying and secret courts.

It is neither affordable, nor does it provide care. It nominally provides insurance, and said insurance does not guarantee that the insured will be able to see a health care provider. Depending on where you live even ‘cadillac’ plans won’t get you care; just try finding an OB accepting new patients (for that matter, any OB) within a two hour drive in some parts of the country.

I dunno. I think the word “affordable” may give Nancy and the President quite a little problem here in the repackaging effort. That’s just another big lie on top of all the other lies related to Obamacare that people have picked up on. I bet we can do some good ads about how unaffordable the Affordable Care Act has proven to be.

Standard policy of leftists — it’s inherent in their thinking — lay claim to the thing you aren’t.

Hence, the “German Democratic Republic” (aka “East Germany”) is neither a democracy nor a republic. And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — aka “North Korea” is the same — neither a democracy nor a republic.

This happens all the time. Lefties are exceedingly focused on the names of things as somehow more significant than what they actually ARE.

When I watched the video, and the hand gestures, my first thought was “Vanna P ? Vanna P ? Thy name is Nancy !” …

feets #63 – she is quintessentially representative of the current crony-capitalist fascist-acting political party in this country … McCain is just one of a few in the opposition party which is all that is stopping the US from going full-Mussolini … you don’t have to respect McCain – but you should respect the GOP for *being* that loyal opposition that is all that is slowing down Pres’ent Obama and his minions …

Kevin M – a bunch of us who already lost the health plans that were serving us well are well aware how much of a lie the “affordable” and “Care” are … and more and more of our colleagues are realising as they try to fill prescriptions (and find they have to start from scratch again, to justify why the prescriptions are needed) …

Rep. George Miller (D-CA), who represents part of the East Bay near San Francisco and is regarded inside the Beltway as “Pelosi’s strong arm,” revealed Monday that he will be leaving the House after forty years in office